Tropical Climate Variations during Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

摘要: In this lecture, some of the main results about climatic history Tropics and Subtropics are collected; emphasis is not laid on factual description, but surprisingly large hydrological changes during last 30 000 years a tentative geophysical interpretation these facts. order to burden paper too much with references, recent multi-author proceedings quoted (1,2,4,5,6) only few specialized papers will be separately. Main Sahara adjacent arid belt, in relation equatorial rain-forests Africa, The key issues can derived from ocean cores low-latitude Atlantic Pacific (2) air-sea interaction tropical latitudes, A wealth data exists also Australia (4,7,8) while India was somewhat neglected (see however Duplessy (23)). For most essential evolution polar-continental ice-sheets marine drift-ice must taken into account.